Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 August 2010

Berlin Biennale 2







The second place we visited was a beautiful space. It seemed to be like an old mill or something, with high ceiling rooms with no partitions or walls. It had the same two-staircase layout to the KunstWerke which was really nice as you could just follow the space without missing bits or going back on yourself too much. I loved the casual informality of the layout, the patchwork flooring and carpeting added a laid back homespun vibe which helps to set apart the Berlin art culture from our own, with the exception of the Museum of Everything.
The first piece on the ground floor was displayed really well. Chunky headphones dangled from the ceiling with coiled wires, whilst the video projected onto a decayed wall, it the set the scene for the whole space.
Another piece on the second floor was really intriguing, the piece subtley sprawled across the entire building, with piping and mechanisms cropping up all over. the water works were all dripping onto a huge block of salt which was consequently eroding onto a bed-like installation.

Akadamie De Kunst - Mona Hatoum


A beautiful big Modern Gallery space to showcase Contemporary Art, in this case Mona Hatoum
Her work is very nice to look at, yet also pretty sinister. A cheese grater is magnified to the proportions of a dressing room blind, and the connotations on this scale and in relation to the human body are pretty scary. I managed to get a few sneaky pictures before duly getting my wrists slapped by an angry female invigilator. Ooops! The overall relaxed Berlin attitude to photographing didn't apply here, obvs not.